Regardless, the Trump Dump brings back memories of a similar tarmac attack during the 1988 presidential race (via Oxford Journal’s Public Opinion Quarterly).

[A] flat tire on Michael Dukakis’s airplane on the tarmac became an irresistible metaphor for his predicament in the polls. The tire became the focal point of the Dukakis story that day. Just as Dukakis can’t get off the ground in the polls, his plane today couldn’t get off the ground at the now forgotten airport. It is a shot . . . seen many times since, be it a candidate stumble, a mumble, or yet another case of airplane trouble.